Leonid Filatov

Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov December 1946 October 2003 was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, pamphleteer, who shot to fame while a member of troupe at Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe illness that haunted him in the 1990s, he received many awards, including the Russian Federation State Prize and Peoples Artist of Russia in 1996.

Filatov was born onDecember 1946, in Kazan. His father was Aleksey Yeremeyevich Filatov , his mother Klavdia Nikolaevna Filatova . The family frequently moved around, because father was a radio operator and spent much time in field expeditions. When the boy was seven years old his parents divorced, and Leonid moved along with his mother to Ashkhabad to join his mothers relatives. While a schoolboy, he had his first publications made in the Ashkhabad press.

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